Dancers’ Group: Celebrating 30 Years

Phone Numbers, Floors, Windows and Love I often gauge the depth of my relationship with someone based on if I know their phone number by heart. There are very few […]

Somatic Costumes: from Choreography to Socio-political Acts

“Dance is political not because of its subject matter but because of the way dances are made, how they are structured, and what they show about people relating to each […]

The Luckiest Teacher: Lisa Aguilar’s 40 Year Commitment to Tahitian Dance

Lisa Aguilar is the Ra’atira Pupu (Director) and Choreographer for the East Bay-based Tahitian Dance Company, Te Mana O Te Ra. I spent a Sunday afternoon speaking with Lisa about her […]

Studies on Aging Performing Artists

The following is a reprinting of an executive summary written on an ongoing research project regarding aging artists in America, what the project has been finding, and where the research […]

New View with Karim Baer

KARIM BAER is the recently hired Executive Director of Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Before joining LINES, he served as a presenter directing an arts and ideas program for California Institute […]

Mary Sano and the Duncan Legacy

It is a typical Sunday afternoon at the Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dancing. The sounds of Chopin, Gluck and Schubert provide the soundtrack as a light breeze caresses the […]

REST/UNREST: Latina/o/x choreographers provide community and craft to strategize, recover, and resist.

BOUBION AND ALDAPE ARE THE CO-DIRECTORS OF THE 4TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF LATIN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS, (FLACC 2017) Liz: The number four typically represents stability and order. It is a […]

In Practice: Tonya Marie Amos

In a 1993 interview, Toni Morrison said, “The people who practice racism are bereft. […] It feels crazy. It is crazy. […] If you can only be tall because somebody’s […]

Ways of Looking; Disability as Ability

An examination of the way audiences, both European and American, approach integrated dance.

Margaret Jenkins’ Past Meets Present in “Times Bones:” A 40th Anniversary

YOU CAN’T MISS HER in the audience at dance shows around town, with that lion’s mane of red hair, that regal posture, that focused stare, intimidating until she offers a […]